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By paNOW Staff

COVID continues

Residents maintaining testing numbers, new COVID cases higher than last week, 20 deaths reported

Mar 31, 2022 | 2:23 PM

Another 1,196 new cases were confirmed last week by the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 integrated epidemiology (epi) report release today.

The number of new laboratory-confirmed cases was about 34 per cent higher than the number of new cases in the previous week (894).

There were 20 newly-reported COVID-19 deaths, about 39 per cent lower than in the previous week (33).

The province is also reporting 7,449 laboratory tests were performed in Saskatchewan, which was similar to the number of tests in the previous week (7,488).

There were 10 confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care and care home settings were reported this week.

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There were 25.7 COVID-like illness patients per 1,000 emergency department visits which is lower than the average weekly rate in the previous six weeks (35.2 per week/1,000 visits).

As of March 26, of the population five years and older, 85.7 per cent received at least one dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine and 80.6 per cent completed a series.

Among the population 18 years and older, 51.3 per cent had received at least one booster vaccination.

More than 19.3 million rapid antigen test kits have been distributed in the province. They are easily accessible at 630 locations.

Issued Thursdays, the epi report utilizes multiple data sources and includes laboratory-confirmed cases, deaths, tests, vaccination information provincially and by zones, as well as hospital and ICU census trends and distribution of rapid antigen tests. The epi report this week looks at data from Sunday, March 20 to Saturday, March 26, 2022. The hospitalization data is a comparison from March 23 to March 30, 2022.

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